My master went with no leaking that I could find.  It's an easy replacement,
takes about an hour including bleeding.  Be sure to keep the fluid off the
paint, it eats it.
tx,
bmc  :)
"Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."

> From: Scott Wilson <smorewhisky@YAHOO.COM>
> Reply-To: Scott Wilson <smorewhisky@YAHOO.COM>
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:45:34 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: master cylinder or pressure plate???
>
> hello all...starting to have a problem with my clutch,
> 85 1.9L...recently the clutch pedal was on occasion
> getting fairly hard to push, then if i pumped it some
> it would work itself back to normal. now it is
> starting to feel like mush, like the bleeder is open
> on the slave cylinder type feel...so since i replaced
> the slave cyl. a couple months ago i am thinking the
> master cylinder, but it is not leaking (although looks
> old)and all the posts in the archives seem to indicate
> it is not going until it leaks. the other thing i came
> across in the archives is the pressure plate may be
> going. the way it has been degrading i expect to have
> no clutch by tomorrow...so can master cylinders go bad
> without leaking? or am i in for my first engine pull
> this weekend? and how hard is it to replace the
> pressure plate anyway? what else should i do while im
> in there as well? thanks for any help...
>
> =====
> Scott Wilson
> 85 GL Westfalia
>
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